James Thompson 
 Assist Chair/Professor, English & Comp Literature 
 English & Comp Literature, CB#3520 
 (919) 932-5785 
 uthomp@email.unc.edu 
 http://english.unc.edu/faculty/thompsonj.html
Appointed Year: | 1982
Tenured: | Yes
Education: | Doctorate (1978), Univ Florida

World Area of Focus:

• International 25%-49%
• Western Europe/European Union (EU) 50%-74%

Languages:

• French (professional proficiency)
• Lingala (limited working proficiency)

Specialization: | British literature
Relevant Courses Taught: | • Global Authors: Jane Austen; 18th Century British Literature; English Drama of the Restoration and The 18th Century; 18th Century British Fiction; 19th Century British Novel

Recent Publications:

• 2015 Jane Austen and Modernization: Sociological Readings. Palgrave Macmillan,
• 2003 Jane Austen and Co.:Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture.  Edited.  Suzanne Pucci and James Thompson. SUNY Albany Press, accepted and forthcoming, January 2003. 2003                                    
• 1996 Models of Value:Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel, Duke University Press, 1996. 1996                                    
• 1988 Between Self and World: the Novels of Jane Austen, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.